Holiday drug bust in Somerville leads to arrest

Wednesday

Just a couple days after Christmas, on Dec. 27, detectives spotted a known drug distributor standing outside of a shop on Temple Street in Somerville.

Speaking with him was Cameron Bourque, who is well-known to the Somerville Police given his history with the Narcotics Unit and recent allegations of dealing cocaine and Xanax in Somerville.

Detective Guerdy Legros called it in and, with Detective Fernando Cicerone, confirmed that there was an active warrant out for Bourque.

“At that point, Mr. Bourque was seen entering the [shop] and removing a red winter jacket he had on,” reported Legros. “He placed the jacket on a chair about three feet away from him on top of a folder later revealing paperwork with his personal information.”

They informed Bourque that there was an active warrant for his arrest, and Capasso ordered him to get up and to place his hands behind his back.

“As he attempted to handcuff Bourque, he observed an object with a shiny metal part in Bourque's waistline,” reported Legros. “As he conducted a quick frisk of Bourque, Capasso determined the object to be a knife and immediately removed it from his waistline.”

When Bourque got up, Cicerone went to retrieve his belonging, the red jacket, from the other chair, but Bourque immediately denied ownership.

At that point, we knew he was being untruthful because we had just observed him wearing the same red jacket when he was outside,” reported Legros. “We asked two other individuals present if the jacket belonged to them and they all said no, as they indicated to us that they were wearing their own jackets.”

After securing Bourque, detectives walked him outside and requested the police wagon. Before putting the jacket onto Bourque, Cicerone conducted a quick pat frisk for a weapon in the jacket. Though he felt no weapon, Cicerone did sense multiple objects inside each pocket.

Once the mobile detention arrived, detectives inventoried Bourque's items, and found a clear glassine baggie containing a white rocky substance believed to be crack cocaine.

“In my training and experience, the amount of product recovered along with the different sized cocaine rocks is consistent with drug distribution, not possession,” reported Legros.

Bourque was arrested on the warrant and, due to the knife recovered on him during the arrest, charged him with possession of a dangerous weapon and possession with intent to distribute Class B narcotics.